Save Our Hospitals is a resident-led campaign group formed in July 2012. We are FIGHTING against the NHS plans to DEMOLISH Charing Cross Hospital and downgrading of our A&Es( Hammersmith, Charing Cross, Ealing and Central Middlesex Hospitals)

Wednesday, 8 April 2015

West London NHS trusts miss A&E waiting time targets

All NHS trusts across west London fell short of the target of 95% of patients waiting less than four hours to be seen in A&E.

All of west London's hospital trusts missed A&E waiting time targets last month.

The trust, responsible for Ealing Hospital, Northwick Park and Central Middlesex hospitals, has not hit the 95% target since it was created at the start of October.

Isleworth's West Middlesex Hospital, where 92.8% of patients waited less than four hours, has missed the target for six weeks running.

Imperial College Hospital, 89.8%, has missed the target for four weeks; Pennine Acute, 93.4%, for 22 weeks; and University Hospitals of South Manchester, 93.1%, for five weeks, while Chelsea and Westminster, 92.8%, and The Hillingdon Hospitals, 94.4%, just dipped below the target in the last weeks of March.

Across England, A&Es have missed the waiting time targets every week for the last six months.

The latest figures, from NHS England, show in the week to March 29, 92% of people attending A&E waited less than four hours before being admitted, discharged or transferred. The target is at least 95% waiting less than four hours.

The figures for the last week of March mean that the target has been missed every week for two quarters, with the last time English A&Es managed to hit the target in the week ending September 28.

Across the whole of the January to March quarter, just 91.8% of people attending A&E waited less than four hours, the worst performance across a quarter in the 10 years the figures go back.

For the whole of 2014/15, English A&Es missed the 95% target, with an overall performance for the year of 93.6%, the lowest performance since 91% in 2003/04, when targets were first introduced. In 2014/15, the 95% target was missed in 37 out of 52 weeks.

The worst performing trust in England in the week to March 29 was Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals, with 71.4% of patients waiting less than four hours. More than a fifth of patients had to wait longer than four hours in 13 other A&Es across England.